After Ran Ran spoke, she felt a twinge of regret. She had actually hoped Lady Enke Ma would talk her out of it, but the latter remained silent.
In a sense, that counted as encouragement.
So Ran Ran wriggled free from Lady Enke Ma's embrace and went to the shattered Mud Mech to look for her High-Frequency Dagger. But all she found were a few fragments that seemed to be wreckage, along with the Origin Mother that had rolled out, still half-wrapped.
Just as Tai Yu had said, it broke easily.
"Here, use this." Tai Yu walked over and handed Ran Ran an unsharpened dagger. Only the Training Ground still provided such primitively crude cold weapons. Grinning, he gestured for Ran Ran to return to her place. "We still need to keep things under control. This time, besides the augmented power, the power of the 'Spine Boundary Pattern' will act directly on you... Commit yourself. Feel it. Truly experience it."
Ran Ran muttered, "Is there really such an experience?"
But as she was about to step back into the Dark Zone, she turned to look at the "Life Sketch" still floating in midair. Lady Enke Ma was watching it as well, utterly focused.
Once Ran Ran reentered the Dark Zone and her pupils adjusted, she could barely make out the scene in the darkness: Ling Ji was intently studying Tai Yu, while Xin Rui had lowered her head with her eyes closed, seemingly making further adjustments to her condition.
Their reactions reinforced Ran Ran's judgment.
There was a reason she was "taking the risk" of trying "premium service" once.
So Ran Ran looked once more toward the "Life Sketch" in the lit area. Like Xin Rui, she lowered her head slightly, closed her eyes, and began regulating her state through